Nuruddin Farah

"Discusses different types of maps, how they are used, and how they represent geographical areas. Includes hands-on activites"--Provided by publisher.

Genre/Form: Political fiction Fiction Material Type: Fiction Document Type: Book All Authors / Contributors: Nuruddin Farah Find more information about: ISBN: 1555971628 9781555971625 OCLC Number: 24796179 Notes: Originally published: London : Allison & Busby, 1983. Description: 237 p. ; 22 cm.

Satire op een maoïstische commune eind jaren zestig door een voormalig lid dat door zijn homoseksualiteit en druggebruik uit de toon viel.

These days, encryption of confidential data and communications is an increasingly important part of doing business. But steganography can take data confidentiality to a whole new level, since it hides encrypted messages in ordinary-looking data files, making the very existence of the messages practically undetectable. Although steganography is not a new field and has played a critical part in secret communication throughout history, few people understand exactly how it works today.

Het leven van een jongeman aan de vooravond van de burgeroorlog in Somalië wordt aangeraakt door magie, taboes en familiegeheimen.

Maren McClure and Kyle Sterling are enemies in a cutthroat, fast-track industry. He's threatening the company she fought to build; she's endangering his empire. But their instant attraction will raise the stakes from risk...to explosive.

"A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips. Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war. Completing the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers. "-- "Completing the trilogy that began with LINKS and KNOTS, Jeebleh returns to Somalia, now in a religionist grip, along with his journalist son-in-law, Malik, and Malik's brother Ahl, who is in search of his stepson-turned-pirate"--

The author, a Somali, recounts the stories of Somali refugees and others whose lives were uprooted or terribly transformed by the anarchy in Somalia during the early 1990s.